Number of City Secondary School Teachers Who Meet Standards Through Several School Years 2010-2017

( Source: Author's synthesis )

3.1.2. Staff and teachers

From 2009 to 2017, the Education sector of Thai Nguyen city has effectively implemented the building of the city's teaching staff and educational management staff in the direction of improving quality and standardizing the team. The sector has well implemented the policy in the spirit of the Resolution of the 17th Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Congress, which clearly stated the need to conduct training and fostering to improve the quality of teaching staff and education at all levels according to Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the Central Party Secretariat.

The City Education Sector has been and continues to focus on implementing the Project on building and improving the quality of teachers and educational managers in Thai Nguyen province, issued together with Decision No. 170/QD-UBND dated January 20, 2006 of the Provincial People's Committee. Accordingly, the sector focuses on implementing the following objectives:

Firstly, there are enough teachers and educational administrators to meet the requirements of educational development in the province and the requirements of general education reform.

Second, balance the structure of the team, types of cadres, teachers, and employees at all levels, grades, and fields of study. Focus on training music teachers,

Fine arts, technology, information technology for junior high school level, teachers of national defense education for high school level. Training of library and laboratory staff for all schools.

Third, standardize and raise standards in training qualifications, with the goal of 100% of junior high school teachers meeting standards and 40% above standards.

Fourth, 100% of teachers are regularly trained periodically to update new professional knowledge, 100% of educational managers are trained in educational management skills.

Fifth, consolidate and develop continuing education centers, comprehensive technical and career guidance centers, 100% of general vocational teachers are standardized in qualifications and trained in new technology knowledge.

Sixth, deploy the approved plan to implement the Socialized Education Project.

Seventh, 100% of schools and educational institutions have Party cells, and the majority of Party cells have achieved the status of clean and strong Party cells and Party cells. The percentage of Party members among teachers and educational managers in the entire sector must reach 45% or more, of which 100% of those holding leadership positions must be Party members.

In order to successfully achieve the above objectives, to standardize the teaching staff and educational management team of the City, ensuring sufficient quantity and balanced structure to meet the requirements of the new period. Implementing the policies of the Central, the Provincial Party Committee and the Thai Nguyen City Party Committee, the City Education sector has done a good job in personnel work:

Recruitment prioritizes recruiting people with good political and moral qualities, good expertise and professionalism. Accepting cadres and teachers who have achieved excellent titles at provincial and national levels in provincial and national competitions and festivals to work in their localities.

The city rotates and transfers cadres and teachers between secondary schools according to work requirements, overcoming the imbalance in development between schools.

The appointment of cadres and teachers is strictly implemented according to the regulations of the Party, the State, and the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. 100 leaders and managers of secondary schools in the area are party members, with expertise, professional skills, and political theory that meet the requirements of the task.

The training and development of cadres and teachers is focused and concerned. Every year, the City Education Department develops plans and organizes training courses to strengthen skills, expertise, and update new knowledge... As a result, from 2011 to present, 100% of the City's secondary school teachers have met the standards.

Table 3.4. Number of qualified secondary school teachers in the city over some school years 2010-2017

School year 2010-2011	School year 2015-2016	School year 2016-2017	School year 2017-2018
Total number of teachers	1025	1112	1112	1113
Number of qualified teachers	1012	1112	1112	1113
Public	1012	1112	1112	1113
Non-public
Standard rate %	98.7	100	100	100

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( Source: Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen city )

Thus, it can be affirmed that the team of cadres and teachers meeting the standards of the City's secondary school level fully meets the criteria in the 6 professional standards for teachers stipulated in Circular No. 30/2009/TT-BGDDT dated October 22, 2009 of the Ministry of Education and Training promulgating regulations on professional standards for secondary school teachers and high school teachers, specifically:

1. Standards of political quality, ethics, and lifestyle.

2. Standards on the ability to understand the subject and educational environment.

3. Standards on teaching capacity.

4. Standards on educational capacity.

5. Standards on capacity for socio-political activities.

6. Standards on career development capacity.

During the process of evaluating and classifying teachers according to standards, strictly follow the requirements of evaluation and classification, evaluation and classification methods and evaluation and classification processes according to regulations.

In addition to maintaining the results of meeting the standards of cadres and teachers, the City's Education sector also constantly pays attention to the work of building and developing a team of cadres and secondary school teachers above the standards:

Chart 3.1. Percentage of teachers meeting or exceeding standards over a number of school years

( Source: Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen city )

The education management team and teachers are increasingly equal in terms of professional qualifications as well as political theory. With the result of 100% of teachers meeting the standards and the above-standard rate over the school years 2010-2011 reached 58.9%, 2015-2016 reached 82%, 2016-2017 reached 85%, 2017-2018 reached 88.4% as above shows us the results of the development in the work of building the secondary education team of the City. To achieve that result, the City Education sector has regularly proactively advised the City Party Committee, the City People's Committee, the Provincial Department of Education and Training to effectively implement the following contents:

The team of teachers and education managers are regularly reviewed and arranged in appropriate organizational structures and job positions; plans are developed to train and foster a team of cadres, civil servants and public employees with high moral qualities, working capacity, sense of responsibility and professionalism; the recruitment, training, use, appointment, evaluation and classification of cadres, civil servants and public employees are innovated to ensure sufficient capacity, qualities and prestige to meet the requirements of the assigned tasks.

Carry out well the work of Party building, strengthen discipline and order for cadres, civil servants and public employees in implementing tasks. Enhance the responsibility of leaders in implementing discipline and order in public service of the unit. Carry out well the internal ideological and political work in the school unit.

Ensuring the rights, benefits and policies of teachers and educational managers such as strictly implementing the Government's Decrees and Circulars such as: Decree No. 61/ND-CP on salary increase, consideration of attraction allowances, position allowances, transfer of teacher code, settlement of retirement regimes, support for cadres and teachers to study for Masters and PhDs; Decree No. 132/2007/ND-CP dated September 4, 2007 on staff streamlining policy...

The Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen City has well performed its functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure as stipulated in Circular No. 35/2008/TTLT-BGD&DT-BNV dated July 14, 2008; regularly consulted and developed plans for the Department of Education and Training of the province, and the People's Committee of Thai Nguyen City to pay attention to approving and creating conditions for cadres and teachers at all levels to attend training courses, upgrade standards, and complete according to the requirements of the professional title standards in accordance with regulations.

The Education Department of Thai Nguyen City has taken many measures to gather excellent and experienced teachers to research and propose many solutions to improve teaching quality and innovate teaching methods according to each level.

The level of students' learning, making students interested in learning, making efforts to overcome difficulties in learning to achieve good results. Thereby improving training efficiency, preventing repetition, effectively preventing dropouts, maintaining the number of students in each class. Thereby, the graduation rate and training efficiency increase every year. The graduation rate at secondary school is always over 98%.

The increasing number of students attending secondary schools is also a factor requiring the City's Education Department to pay attention to training and fostering a team of secondary school staff and teachers to be able to meet the learning needs of the city's children.

Table 3.6. Number of secondary school students in the city over a number of school years

STT

Secondary School Students	School year 2010-2011	School year 2013-2014	School year 2017-2018
1	Total	13391	14370	16738
2	Public	13391	14370	16738
3	Non-public

( Source: Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen city )

3.2. Teaching facilities and equipment

Since 2009, the City Department of Education and Training has actively advised the City People's Committee to effectively implement directive documents from higher levels such as: Decision No. 20/2008/QD-TTg dated February 1, 2008 of the Prime Minister on approving the Project on Consolidation of Schools, Classrooms and Official Houses for Teachers in the period 2008-2012; Decision No. 1625/QD-TTg dated September 11, 2014 of the Prime Minister approving the Project on Consolidation of Schools, Classrooms and Official Houses for Teachers in the period 2014-2015 and roadmap to 2020; Plan No. 09/KH-UBND dated April 25, 2008 of the People's Committee of Thai Nguyen province on approving the Project on Consolidation of Schools, Classrooms and Official Houses for Teachers in the period 2008-2012; Decision No. 1709/QD-UBND dated July 30, 2008 on approving the list of schools and classrooms to be invested in solid construction in the phase

period 2008-2012 Thai Nguyen province...; Education development projects of Thai Nguyen city in the periods 2006-2010; 2011-2015; 2016-2020.

With the attention of the Government, Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, Provincial Department of Education and Training; Thai Nguyen City Party Committee, Thai Nguyen City People's Committee in implementing the Project on consolidating schools, classrooms and public housing for teachers in the period of 2008-2012, the Education sector of Thai Nguyen City has promoted the achieved results, made efforts to complete the approved investment projects, focusing on building facilities and teaching equipment in the direction of standardization, diversification and meeting national standards, specifically:

The total approved project for the period 2008-2012 of Thai Nguyen City is 368 classrooms, 1,242 m2 of public housing for teachers. Implementing the direction from the superior, the Education Department of Thai Nguyen City has directed the subordinate secondary schools to coordinate with the Party committees and local authorities where the schools are located to seriously and make efforts to organize the implementation of the project.

Every year, the targets set out in the Project are implemented faster than required. In 2008 and 2009, the assigned plan was 212 classrooms, 707 m2 of public housing for teachers with a total investment capital of 26,750 million VND. The City Education Department has implemented 223 classrooms, reaching 105.19% of the plan, the completion rate compared to the entire project is 60.6%; 846 m2 of public housing for teachers, reaching 119.66% of the plan and 68.12% of the completion rate compared to the entire project; the total disbursed capital is 26,750 million VND, reaching 100%) [18].

Although the implementation of the Project to consolidate schools, classrooms and public housing for teachers in the period 2008-2012 was completed by Thai Nguyen city 1 year ahead of schedule, as of 2013, there were still 36 unfinished secondary school classrooms due to lack of capital for completion [22, p. 2].

In the period of 2014-2015, the secondary school continued to solidify and build 22 new classrooms with a total approved investment capital of 7,380 million VND.

(In which: Government bond capital: 5,680 million VND; other budget: 1,700 million VND). 558 m2 of public housing for teachers was built with a capital of 100 million VND [22]. As a result of the 2015-2016 school year, the existing solidified buildings at Thai Nguyen city's secondary schools were 306 classrooms, 111 subject classrooms, 87 study rooms and 210 administrative rooms, 95 toilets of all kinds.

With the list of approved additional projects and works, the Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen city advised and proposed that the Party committees and authorities at all levels approve a budget of 36,960 million VND to continue implementing the Project to solidify schools, classrooms and public housing for teachers, of which 5,040 million VND is invested in the city's secondary schools [23].

The City Department of Education and Training has been proactive in supervising and managing the construction quality of projects in accordance with regulations; implementing investment and disbursement on schedule, achieving quality, meeting requirements for use and settling investment capital immediately upon putting into use. Focusing on mobilizing and integrating many other resources inside and outside the State budget to implement projects.

Thus, by 2015, 100% of secondary schools in Thai Nguyen city had solidified schools, classrooms and teachers' houses. 100% of secondary schools no longer had temporary classrooms or grade 4 classrooms and had solidified high-rise buildings. The success in solidifying schools, classrooms and teachers' houses in Thai Nguyen city has created conditions for the Provincial People's Committee to allocate and prioritize funding for solidifying schools, classrooms and teachers' houses in other localities with many difficulties in the province such as: Vo Nhai district, Dinh Hoa district, Dai Tu district, Dong Hy district, Phu Binh district, Phu Luong district.

The construction of modern facilities that meet national standards has been approved by the Department of Education and Training of Thai Nguyen province and the Department of Education and Training.

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